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It was my first kitchen job, I had been Cooking for a few months. We kept the plates on a rack up near the ceiling, right next to the unwitting smoke detector.

Service was busy, our ticket board was full, and we were going full tilt. I reach up to grab a plate, when the head chef yells something at me. I turn around to reply to him, and yank the plate..... Right into the fire alarm! It goes off and there is no way to stop it.

The entire Restaraunts is evacuated, and we have to wait for the fire department to come and turn the alarms off. The best part? The owner got a $1000 fine for a false alarm. I was lucky to keep my job... Until a few months later, when I set the alarm off again :s

It really was. This place was the shittest kitchen I ever worked in. There was a door at one end which lead out to the back ally, and one of the chefs would literally leave a cigarette going at all times, popping out to take a drag while cooking food.